Worst news as a Villa fan?

[Andy_Lochhead_in_the_air]

Has anyone else noticed the worst moments thread is twice as long as the best moments thread?! Would this have been the case a couple of years ago?  Are we all so pissed off we just want to wallow in pity past and present now?

The worst moments thread was started first, it will even up.
In fact when things are bad I think people are more likely to turn to the memories section and remember the good old days.
I've been supporting the Villa for something like 16,500 days and love this section to recall the 15 or so good ones.     

[mikeb1982]

Has anyone else noticed the worst moments thread is twice as long as the best moments thread?! Would this have been the case a couple of years ago?  Are we all so pissed off we just want to wallow in pity past and present now?

The worst moments thread was started first, it will even up.
In fact when things are bad I think people are more likely to turn to the memories section and remember the good old days.
I've been supporting the Villa for something like 16,500 days and love this section to recall the 15 or so good ones. 

Phew.  I agree with you remembering the good old days, it what makes you go up VP to watch Stoke on Bank Holiday Monday

[Ad@m]

Not really news as such, but the worst moment for me as a Villa fan was watching Inter score their 3rd goal, incorrectly as the ball had clearly gone out of play before the cross, in the 2nd leg after we'd beat then 2-0 at VP in the first leg, to knock us out of the Uefa Cup in 1990.

As a 9 year old who had only really been following the Villa for a year or so to see us robbed of the Uefa Cup like that was horrible.

[PeterWithe]

Not really news as such, but the worst moment for me as a Villa fan was watching Inter score their 3rd goal, incorrectly as the ball had clearly gone out of play before the cross, in the 2nd leg after we'd beat then 2-0 at VP in the first leg, to knock us out of the Uefa Cup in 1990.

As a 9 year old who had only really been following the Villa for a year or so to see us robbed of the Uefa Cup like that was horrible.

That was bad, what was nearly as bad was being in the ground, needing a shit and looking in horror at the holes in the ground you were expected to defacate in, perhaps the legendary plumbers of the Roman Empire never got that far north.

[Ad@m]

Not really news as such, but the worst moment for me as a Villa fan was watching Inter score their 3rd goal, incorrectly as the ball had clearly gone out of play before the cross, in the 2nd leg after we'd beat then 2-0 at VP in the first leg, to knock us out of the Uefa Cup in 1990.

As a 9 year old who had only really been following the Villa for a year or so to see us robbed of the Uefa Cup like that was horrible.

That was bad, what was nearly as bad was being in the ground, needing a shit and looking in horror at the holes in the ground you were expected to defacate in, perhaps the legendary plumbers of the Roman Empire never got that far north.

I watched it on telly, at my nan's.  Her toilets have little dolls to hide toilet rolls under!

[russon]

O'Neill leaving for me. Although our progress wasn't entirely down to him, he very much symbolized 'proud history bright future' image and when he resigned, so close to the season beginning it seemed to confirm that we'd missed the boat and that the opportunity to compete with the big boys was gone for the forseeable future.

Same here. Whatever the reasons behind his departure, my first thought was that we would "rue the day" that MON left the football club. I just felt that we would go backwards, but I never thought it would pan out the way it has.

Agree. Whatever the rights and wrongs of his departure, I felt we'd lost an energy and passion that we'd struggle to replace. The Milner and O'Neill departures haven't just winded us but castrated, hung drawn and quartered us.

Other bad 'uns - Holte End demolishment, Laursen retirement but probably worst of all was Oxford semi defeat in the 80's. I was a teenager living near Aberdeen then, hadn't seen a Villa game in the 3 years since we moved up there, and had been promised a ticket to the final if we won, I broke down and blarted when we lost.

[Damo70]

That night at The Manor 'Ground' (not sure it deserved that description) was horrible. Oxford United beat Aston Villa in a cup semi-final. From when time began until the end of the world only for a couple of years in the eighties would that ever be possible.

[adrenachrome]

From a purely football perspective, selling Slogger Sleeuwenhoek to Small Heath did nothing to improve my mood.

[OzVilla]

There are many and pretty much all have been covered but i'll go for the late Bruce double for Man Utd against Sheff Weds in 93.

We'd kept track of the scores after a frustrating game at home to Coventry and Man Utd were losing - then Fergie time kicked in.

I honestly could have thrown up after that one, just walked out of the ground with thousands in shocked silence.

The momentum had turned and we knew it was gone.  I'd really believed too.

[curiousorange]

The single worst moment for me was losing the FA Cup Final in 2000. I was nineteen and I cried on my mum's shoulder like a baby.

But as that's a moment and not 'news', the worst piece of Villa-related news was seventy-nine minutes of injury time at Old Trafford. From that point on English football changed for the worse and I sometimes wonder if we'd have a more competitive league had Villa, not the sharpest when it came to self-promotion, took the title instead of the cretins from the 'Theatre of Dreams'.

[AV82EC]

Dwight Yorke leaving.

[Holte L2]

Dwight Yorke leaving.  For some reason as a 12 year old, I cut out and made a collarge of loads of Villa Images I had of him the day he was leaving.

Results wise, blowing 4th spot in 2009/2010 was a big blow.  It angers me that if we'd have just beat Sunderland,Everton and Wolves at home instead of consecutive draw's we'd have been in the European Cup - quite comfortably!

[Gareth]

Putting the news on Stan to one side as that is completely real life as opposed to the game...Birchy's death and Houlliers heart problems last year also fit this category.

In terms of football......

I think hearing 'breaking news' on R5 one afternoon that it was rumoured that Lou Macari was going to be apponted as Villa manager....thankfully it was a false alarm but at the time was not good.

Starting the summer saying that the only two players I didnt want to see at VP were Harewood & Knight....celebrating Zat signing a new contract at Fulham (bullet dodged)....then 6 weeks later we had signed both of them!

[maidstonevillain]

Mine is a selfish one: coming home from school in February 1977 to be met by my unemployed dad telling me Villa had sold out of tickets for the Wembley final v Everton.

Hope you got to the other two games.

As an aside, I was living in Liverpool at the time, and was to meet the family, who had the tickets, at Hillsborough for the second game. Unfortunately, although I was not to know at the time, dad had his wallet lifted at the M1 services with all his cash and the tickets. Spotted wandering around by a mounted copper, who asked me if I needed a ticket, and produced one from his pocket and gave it to me.

[gervilla]

I cried when Sid signed for Bari. I was only 10 and it felt like the end of the world.